Now I'm being just as silly,
but doesn't Dr. Jim West sound like Alicia Silverstone speaking plainly, more or less:
"I think that Clueless was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness."
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does that make me and alicia 'homeys'????? (homies?) (home-ies)? i'm never sure what it is.
oh and by the by, your 'quote' of my remark isnt what i said. i think you just made that stuff up and attributed it to me!
for shame, miss, for shame!!!!
;-)
Of course I did. Made it up, that is, and attributed it to you nonetheless. I was laughing so loudly reading your post, what else could I do. Thanks for playing along! Now, if only Alicia would drop by...
and speaking of "homies" (which Malcolm X may have helped coin), didn't Aristotle have something to say about "high comedy"?
ἡ κωμῳδία . . . ἀπὸ τῶν ἐξαρχόντων . . . τῶν τὰ φαλλικὰ ἃ ἔτι καὶ νῦν ἐν πολλαῖς τῶν πόλεων διαμένει νομιζόμενα.
--Poetics 1449a
William Hamilton Fyfe renders that:
"[C]omedy . . . came from the prelude . . . to the phallic songs which still survive as institutions in many cities."
but since I've already messed with your words. . . didn't Aristotle really say this?
"The boisterous musical dramas of the village . . . have their beginnings . . . in what’s blatantly p****-esque, which is still the sexist rule that currently remains as the penetrating force in many of the city-states."
After all, Aristotle's phrase is (A) ἡ [‘he, the Greek article], (B) κωμ [kom, a Greek morpheme meaning ambiguously “reveling” and/or “village”], and (C) ῳδία [odes, which is the transliteral, technical name for Greek lyric poetry].
Funny light deep clueless stuff, I suppose.
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